Practical Data Mining

Glossary

Adaptive Logic Network (ALN)—A powerful, trainable, piecewise, linear regression function.

basic analysis (e.g., unnormalized roll-ups)—Analysis methods relying on simple aggregation (collecting, counting and sorting) of unprocessed data: low-end OLAP.

best-in-class tools vs. enterprise suites—Enterprise suites are usually easier to use (since they have a single, integrated operational paradigm) but will generally not be optimized in all functions. Using the best-in-class for each separate function provides optimal function-by-function performance, ...